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Dream Team basketball stations

Students will refine their basic skills of basketball by participating in a variety of basketball stations.

A lesson plan for grades 3–5 Healthful Living

By Lisa Sinon

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Learning outcomes

Students will:

  • demonstrate a bounce and a chest pass by hitting a designated target on the wall
  • dribble a ball through a cone course with control
  • become more accurate in shooting a basketball
  • develop the basic skills of basketball

Teacher planning

Time required for lesson

one class period

Materials/resources

  • basketballs
  • cones
  • basketball goals
  • masking tape
  • station signs
  • poly spots

Pre-activities

  1. Make signs for the stations. (I place a photo of a basketball player on the sign.)
  2. Set up the stations.
    • Station 1 — four basketballs.
    • Station 2 — four basketballs and make a line ten feet away from wall. Also, make four 8×8-inch squares on the wall as a target for the chest pass.
    • Station 3 — four basketballs and cones. Scatter cones around creating a dribbling course.
    • Station 4 — four basketballs. Also, place poly spots in various spaces on the gym floor for the students to shoot from.
    • Station 5 — four basketballs. Place a restraining line ten feet away from wall. Then, place four 8×8-inch squares on the wall as a target for the bounce pass.
    • Station 6 — four basketballs. Place two poly spots on the floor as a starting place for the lay up.

Activities

After warm-up activities, teacher reviews each station and demonstrates each station. Students are divided into groups and each group spends approximately five minutes at each station.

Dream Team Basketball Stations

  1. Michael Jordan’s Free Throw Station: The students will stand behind the free throw line and practice a free throw.
  2. Glen Rice’s Chest Pass Station: The students will stand behind a designated line and perform ten chest passes against the wall. The pass should hit a 8×8-inch square that is marked on the wall.
  3. Kobe Bryant’s Dribbling Station: The students will dribble around the cone course ten times.
  4. Grant Hill’s Shoot Out: The students will perform three shots from each of the designated places on the court.
  5. Scottie Pippin’s Bounce Pass Station: The students will stand behind a line and perform ten bounce passes against the wall. The pass should hit an 8×8-inch square that is marked on the wall.
  6. Karl Malone’s Lay-Up Station: The students will begin at a designated mark on the floor and practice their lay-up.

Assessment

  • Assess if the student is successful at making the bounce and chest pass hit the target on the wall. (Are the students standing behind the restraining line before each pass? Are the students following-through after each pass?)
  • Assess if the students dribbled the ball through the cone course with control. (Is the student looking ahead while dribbling? Is the student dribbling at waist-level?)
  • Assess if the student is able to shoot the basketball through the basketball hoop accurately and with control. (Is the ball projected with sufficient arc? Is the student concentrating on the target spot?)

Supplemental information

Comments

  • You can vary the distance of the restraining lines of the bounce and chest passes to challenge the students.
  • You can have various sizes of basketballs available for the students to use.
  • You can change the names of the basketball players to represent who is popular in your area.

North Carolina curriculum alignment

Healthful Living Education (2006)

Grade 4

  • Goal 6: The learner will demonstrate competency in a variety of movement forms and proficiency in a few to gain competence towards lifetime physical activities (NASPE Standard 1).
    • Objective 6.03: Demonstrate ball-handling skills necessary for participation in lead up games and sports.
    • Objective 6.04: Demonstrate accuracy skills necessary for participation in a variety of lead-up games and sports.
  • Goal 7: Demonstrates understanding of movement concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics as they apply to the learning and performance of physical activities (NASPE Standard 2).
    • Objective 7.01: Apply critical elements (cues) of skills to improve personal performances in fundamental and selected specialized skills such as throwing to a moving target.

Grade 5

  • Goal 6: The learner will demonstrate competency in a variety of movement forms and proficiency in a few to gain competence towards lifetime physical activities (NASPE Standard 1).
    • Objective 6.03: Demonstrate throwing, passing, dribbling, catching, and shooting skills in team sports.

  • North Carolina Essential Standards

    • Healthful Living (2010)

      • Motor Skills Development

        • 3.MS.1 Apply competent motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities. 3.MS.1.1 Execute combinations of simple locomotor skills and manipulative skills. 3.MS.1.2 Apply basic manipulative skills while moving/traveling....
        • 4.MS.1 Apply competent motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities. 4.MS.1.1 Execute combinations of more complex locomotor skills and manipulative skills in various physical activity settings. 4.MS.1.2 Create movement...
        • 5.MS.1 Apply competent motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities. 5.MS.1.1 Executive combinations of more complex locomotor skills and manipulative skills specific to individual, dual and team activities. 5.MS.1.2...